Yearbook of the Artificial. Vol. 5: Natural Chance, Artificial Chance

ISBN-13: 9783039114764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 284 str.

Negrotti, Massimo

Opis

Not only scientific research, but also modern-day social life, is demonstrating a strongly renewed interest in chance a theme that has accompanied the whole history of human thought. This volume brings together many of the topics in which chance, or randomness, plays a significant role.
The interest in randomness has been accentuated by the emergence of theories and concrete phenomena, which appear to be homing in upon the complex, many-sided, multidimensional and uncertain aspects of reality, such as the dynamics of living or economic systems, or of technological and political trends. Furthermore, in scientific and technological fields, there is a growing need for good random sequences of numbers or symbols for use in simulation or testing activities, cryptographic methods, and so on."

Spis treści

Contents: Massimo Negrotti: Chance would be a fine thing - Denis L. Baggi: The Use of Randomness in the Simulation of Creativity - Danila Bertasio: And Narcissus returns to die in the arms of chance - Aldo Celeschi: Chance: from problem to product - Mariella Combi: Chance as a cultural event - Mario Compiani: The ambivalent role of chance in modern scientific culture - Maurizio Dapor: In praise of chance - Masanori Funakura: Micro Rationality-Randomness and Macro Rationality in Tool Culture: Reciprocity Between Technological and Social intelligences - José M. Galván: Creation and Casuality: The Case in Christian Theological Anthropology - Giuseppe Lanzavecchia: Chance: a law of nature or a cultural construction? - Stefano A. E. Leoni: Some questions on managing randomness by musical performer: about 'indeterminacy' (maybe: 'uncertainty') and 'cruces' (or knots, maybe: hubs?) - Giorgio Mainini: Randomness: a course in survival - Sabrina Moretti: Chance and probability in bioinformatics - Ephraim Nissan: Chance vs. causality, and a taxonomy of explanations - Giuseppe Padovani: Chance and Sense of Action - Fumihiko Satofuka: Rationality and randomness in the skill formation of 'Takumi' as Japanese traditional culture.

O autorze

The Editor: Massimo Negrotti is Full Professor of Methodology of Human Sciences and Director of IMES-LCA at the University of Urbino. He has published several books on artificiality, introducing the term naturoids as a key word for understanding man-machine relations.